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Reading your comments for the week's episode, I feel disappointed now. This season's level of character potential is dropping now.

They should changed the season's title to Doki Doki! Precure Heart in allusion to Cure Heart being the one whom most defeats them all and overpowers them all.

That's the point of Ace character. She show up and show them how weak they were. They have to become stronger. The next 3 episodes is Makoto, Alice and Rikka episodes. They'll have there spot light and become stronger, just like Mana in this episode.

That's the point of Ace character. She show up and show them how weak they were. They have to become stronger. The next 3 episodes is Makoto, Alice and Rikka episodes. They'll have there spot light and become stronger, just like Mana in this episode.

She's so far above everybody else that it feels a little ridiculous to me. Not to mention how poorly this episode painted Cure Rosetta, Cure Diamond, and Cure Sword to the point of them being completely useless in Cure form while Mana managed to do more in human form... I know it was to show her change of heart and resolution but I found it incredibly ridiculous.

Also... Alice knows martial arts... why does this not influence her abilities as a Pretty Cure? Mana hasn't the same fighting prowess as Alice... and she completely outshined her in combat this episode... same goes for Cure Ace, for all we know she could be a martial arts master but at the same time I doubt that they're willing to go that route again. If they chose to then at least that would explain why Cure Ace is so powerful but it wouldn't explain why Cure Heart seems to outshine Cure Rosetta (who does about the same as Cure Sword and Diamond) in combat.

The episode is so Mana focused and once again her friends are put on the back burner (which I pretty much saw coming from the beginning for Cure Rosetta and Cure Diamond) to the point where they don't even bother showing their transformations while Cure Heart's is shown in its entirety (which they should've skipped as well in my opinion)... and somehow after Cure Rosetta and Cure Sword's attacks failed completely, her's manages to work...

This episode just seemed really sloppy to me, it probably would've been better if Cure Ace took all of their loveads in order to give an explanation as to why Alice, Rikka, and Makoto couldn't help the situation instead of putting them all in an extremely helpless situation like they did after transforming...

This reminds me of Makoto- In the beginning, she was shown to be an actual competent fighting Cure, but with her joining the group, her fighting ability/intelligence (?) dropped to their level- or even worse, in order to maintain their balance... Which makes it sad, as Cure Sword could/should have been the most badass character until she chose the path of friendship and had been watered down to a newbie like the others.

I think the fighting in Doki is different than fighting in other precure series. They work more like a team in this. Alice's ability isn't to finish the monster but to protect them. Rikka's ability is more like to support the team, hold the monster in place. Makoto's attack is to bring the monster to low HP so Mana can finish it. It has always been this way. Also, don't expect any invidual finisher in a precure series after mid season. They'll only use team finisher from now on. There might be an invidual finisher in their solo fight near the end of the series with an enemy general or something.

I'm really beginning to wonder what the point of Cure Ace is. She just pops out of nowhere to give speeches that the girls really didn't need in her signature Kugamin voice and steals the show when she transforms and attacks. At least her appearance seems to allow Sword, Diamond, and Rosetta to finally pull off their finishers on enemies, even if she still easily eats up 10% of an episode off her stock footage alone. (though I'm not sure how Rosetta can do that since her Cure powers are defensive)

Also starting to wonder how the rest of the series will go. Basically, we have Regina, Aguri, Ai, the Queen, the possibility of two more villains (if they continue the seven sins theme with the naming), and probably another set of character episodes to get through in a 24 episode period. Just seems like way too much is going on.

@YourIdeas: It feels as if Ace's role is similar to the idea of obtaining the Royal Crystals- to regain their love/resolve back when their hearts are unsure on how to move on when X happens... Except with more Kabooms at the end.

Which means more character development for everyone... Although they're minimal when it comes to Mana, anyways... (._.)

Goodness. It wasn't as awful as New Stage, but it wasn't good either. I think there's something wrong when basically DokiDoki show up around mid movie, and the Precure in general aren't really shown until the end. The voice acting issues continue to appear, though they managed to have Nagisa, Honoka and Hikari speak a couple lines this time. The animation was decent, but not particularly groundbreaking.
What's troubling, considering it's a movie aimed at children, was the pacing: certain sequences lasted too long and in a couple cases I felt something happened just to waste a few minutes.
Toei needs to abandon the All Stars movies like they're now. They're not good (DX1 was, and DX3 mostly for its "slugfest"-like nature). THey should take the Sentai / Kamen Rider regarding crossover movies.

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Yeah, probably intentional considering the director worked on Sailor Moon before. And seems to have improved from SuperS thankfully.

Goodness gracious, he worked on that? Probably the lowest point of the entire franchise.

I actually liked All Stars Stage 2 a lot. It was probably my favorite All Stars since the first one, since a lot of my favorite Precure had actual personalities in this movie rather than just be on screen energy attacks.

Next Precure season I want to see the big bad guy take on the new Precures, and around episode 9 they'll be like "Hey over the weekend we made some new friends" and bam, army of Precures end the season early.